BBC Documentaries

BBC Documentaries

Around the World in 80 Minutes - Century in Song (1999x36)


Air date: Dec 27, 1999

Feature-length documentary that blends music with newly restored archive film to provide a decade-by-decade journey through the 20th century. The programme includes the very first moving pictures - recorded at the Paris World Exhibition of 1900 - and features performances from a range of artists such as Frank Sinatra, Shirley Temple, Judy Garland and the Rolling Stones.

  • Premiered: Nov 1936
  • Episodes: 5294
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